King Charles, Prince William and Kate Middleton are leading the royal family’s commemorations of the victims of the Holocaust on Holocaust Memorial Day.

OSWIECIM, Poland — The 80th anniversary of the ... about rising hatred and antisemitism. Survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp and their families arrive to lay candles at the so-called ...

“God suffered a great deal in every single person who was here. God suffered a great deal in this place,” Cardinal Rys added.

Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people who come from all over the world to mourn and to learn, and the voices of their guides speaking in hushed tones into microphones trying to explain the ungraspable.

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World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.

In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.

People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland on January 23, 2025 [Oded Balilty/AP] “It is not ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were the first to discover the horrors of the concentration camp where ...

The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939. Early on, it was a camp for Polish prisoners ...